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DAVID CAMERON’S underhand attempts to scrap transparency laws and stifle opposition makes Margaret Thatcher’s legacy look liberal, Labour deputy leader Tom Watson said yesterday.
Mr Watson savaged the Prime Minister’s “fundamentally illiberal” assault on a raft of rights used to keep the government in check.
In a speech at London’s Southbank Centre, the civil rights champion demanded the government drop its “sinister” review of the Freedom of Information Act.
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
